Sunday, October 25, 2026

GET ME REWRITE: Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. voted to confirm another incompetent DHSS nominee

 
Dr. Bill is chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). He voted to confirm RFKjr as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He values his personal political survival over public health.  He groveled and sold his soul to obtain an endorsement from Trump but was left hanging with lame duck status.

Top headline:  Politico via Facebook
Headline:  New York Times

Apoorva Mandavilli reports:
Health officials in California and Washington, facing outbreaks of measles this past spring, asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May to validate a test that can diagnose 500 cases in eight hours.
They did not hear back for two months. Officials from the West Coast Health Alliance — California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii — recounted the experience this week in a letter to Dr. Erica Schwartz, the C.D.C.’s new director, who assumed the position in August, shortly after they got the agency’s reply. According to the letter, obtained by The New York Times, the C.D.C. had told them that it had “other.   [emphasis added]

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Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is mum about lies told by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during confirmation hearings.  (8/29)Dear Louisiana GOP US Senator Bill Cassidy M.D.: You had a chance to prevent this quackery on February 13, 2025, but you misplaced your spine. Best, Retiring Guy.  (8/11)Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. misplaces his spine again/  (7/11)

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April 2026

March 2026
It's likely that spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. will cower and cave when it comes to a vote on Casey Means For Surgeon General.  (3/16)

February 2026

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November-December 2025

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But wait, there's more!!
March 2025
Chapter 1.  (3/10)   Censored
Chapter 2.  (3/10)
Chapter 3.  (3/10)
Chapter 4.  (3/11)
Chapter 5.  (3/12)
Chapter 6.  (3/12)
Chapter 7.  (3/13)
Chapter 8.  (3/14)
Chapter 9.  (3/14)
Chapter 10.  (3/14)
Chapter 11.  (3/14)
Chapter 12.  (3/14)
Chapter 13.  (3/15)
Chapter 14.  (3/18)
Chapter 15.  (3/19)
Chapter 16.  (3/19)
Chapter 17.  (3/21)
Chapter 18.  (3/22)
Chapter 19.  (3/26)
Chapter 20.  (3/28)
Chapter 21.  (3/29)
Chapter 22.  (3/30)

April 2025
Chapter 23.  (4/1/)
Chapter 24.  (4/2)

May 2025

June 2025
RFK Jr. Is systematically undermining vaccine science and endangering health while spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. dithers.  (6/27)

July 2025

competing priorities” and could not dedicate time to making a high-volume test available to state labs.  [emphasis added]

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